Charity Navigator’s 2009 CEO Compensation Survey

Excerpted  from Charity Navigator, August 5 2009

At Charity Navigator we receive numerous inquiries from donors, reporters and nonprofit board members asking “how much compensation is too much for a charity’s CEO?” And they aren’t the only ones asking this question. CEO compensation has become such a hot-button topic that the IRS, the entity responsible for regulating charities at the federal level, continues to prioritize CEO compensation as one of its main areas of focus in uncovering fraudulent nonprofit practices. The IRS has even redesigned the Form 990, the information tax return charities submit to the IRS annually, in part, to force greater transparency around nonprofit compensation.   To download the full Survey, click here or go to http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=studies.ceo